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Hey Baby, What's Your Number?: Step Off the Scale

Sheila Moeschen | Posted 05.15.2013 | Women
Read More: Women, Appliances, Actresses, Star Trek Into Darkness, Zoe Saldana, Self-Worth, Advertisements, Beauty Industry, Self-Esteem, Beauty, Hollywood, Film, Weight, Body Image, Fitness, Allure Magazine, Fashion, Domesticity, Scale, Avatar, Women and Weight, Women News
Sheila Moeschen

Allure's highlighting of Saldana's weight reduces this talented performer to a one-dimensional image, reinforcing the strange and fraught relationship women (and men) have with one of the most reviled twentieth-century innovations: the bathroom scale.

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Rethinking in Systems

Jamer Hunt | Posted 04.03.2013 | College
Read More: Design, Education Reform, Scale, Systems Design, Systems Thinking, College News
Jamer Hunt

The landscape of our cultural life is littered with broken systems. A quick pass at any daily newsfeed will inevitably reveal a politician or a pundit declaring that, "the system is broken."

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Our Political Metaphor Problem

Thomas Fisher | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics
Read More: Design Thinking, Entitlement Programs, Hurricane Sandy, Design, Climate Change Denial, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Thomas Fisher, Scale, Democrats, Republicans, Political Metaphors, Republicans Small Government, Small vs. Big Government, Democrats Big Government, Politics News
Thomas Fisher

Instead of seeing our problems in strictly quantitative or qualitative terms, we need to sort our challenges according to their most appropriate scale ... to address each dilemma as creatively and productively as possible.

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Dread The Scale? 5 Reasons You Can Skip Weighing Yourself

Posted 01.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Stop Weighing, Video, Stop Weighing Myself, Stop Weighing Yourself, Weight Gain, Weighing Yourself, Fat, Muscle, Weight Loss, Scale, Weight, Weighing Myself, Weighing, Healthy Living News

By Cynthia Sass, M.P.H., R.D. How much do you hate weighing yourself? According to a UK survey, some women would rather be seen naked by a collea...

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Beware The Scale: Learn The Right Way To Weigh

Posted 09.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Weight Loss Tip, Video, Weigh Yourself, Weighing Yourself, Weight Loss Tips, Weight Loss, Scale, Weight, Livebetteramerica-Fitness, US News, Healthy Living News

By Heather Bauer for U.S. News Health When trying to follow a weight-loss plan, the scale can be your worst enemy. It's a tricky device in tracking...

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Why the Bathroom Scale May Not Always Be a Dieter's Best Friend

Gregg McBride | Posted 06.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Success, Gregg Mcbride, Weight Loss, Losing Weight, Diet, Scale, Motivation, Dieting, Health, Dieting Tips, Track Weight, Dieting Weight, Track Your Weight, Healthy Living News
Gregg McBride

The number that the scale registers has absolutely no reflection on who you are as a person. And, like me, you just might find that paying attention to other indicators proves to be a healthier -- and happier -- way to track your fabulosity.

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PHOTOS: Globe-Trotting Gnome Reveals Quirk Of Gravity

Posted 03.21.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Traveling Gnome Prank, Garden Gnome, Gnome South Pole, Kern, Scale, Slidepollajax, South Pole, Science News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/21/2012 12:19 PM EDT on LiveScience There aren't too many gardens at the South Pole....

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How to Solve the World Water Crisis Today

Auren Kaplan | Posted 01.21.2012 | Impact
Read More: Innovative Nonprofits, Traditional NGOs, World Water Crisis, Lifestraw, Water Crisis, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Change, Scale, Huffpost Water, Africa Water, Water Pollution, Water, Clean Water, Dirty Water, Impact News
Auren Kaplan

The LifeStraw is a life-saving technology that allows any individual to insert the straw into water, no matter how dirty, and an advanced filtration system ensures that the only liquid coming out the other end is clean, potable drinking water.

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Confessions of a Female Entrepreneur

Michele Colucci | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: The Internet, Law, Women Entrepreneurship, Angel Investors, Business Strategies, Lawsuits, Web, Women Entrepreneurs, Websites, Women in Business, Funding, Venture Capital, Lawsuit, Investors, Web 2.0, Investing, Internet, Venture Capitalists, Startups, Scale, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship, Business News
Michele Colucci

Fund-raising is an awkward and often uncomfortable effort for those raising funds. But when the person asking is a women entrepreneur, the dance takes on many more nuances.

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Is This Cause for Alarm?

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: South Africa, Michelle Obama, Britney Spears, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Beyonce, Youtube, Apartheid, Lady GaGa, Scale, Pennies, National Endowment for the Arts, Barack Obama, FY2011 Budget, Proposed Budget, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

The arts make cities better, generate revenue and ensure an innovative future.

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Human Rights in China: What Consumer Behavior Reveals

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: China Brands, Human Rights, Nokia, Nike, Scale, Luxury Brands in China, China, Business, Hsbc, Incrementalism in China, Consumer Behavior in China, Haeir, World News
Tom Doctoroff

During Hillary Clinton's recent visit to the PRC, she unsettled human rights advocates, with a rather blunt assessment of the current state of China and the United States' human rights dialog.

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